Protests against China's heavy Covid-19 curbs spread to more cities, including the financial hub Shanghai on Sunday, nearly three years into the pandemic, with a fresh wave of anger sparked by a deadly fire in the country's far west.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country's Ebola outbreak by 21 days.

Gauteng police have confirmed that a case of crimen injuria was opened on Friday.

Police in Limpopo have launched a manhunt after a woman was found murdered lying in a pool of blood in her alleged boyfriend's house in Lephepane village.

Six people were killed in an accident on the N4 toll road between Middelburg and Emalahleni on Sunday morning.

A dispute between the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa and the Stellenbosch municipality over an initiation site has reached the high court.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on December 20 2023, starting a year of complex preparations in the country, large parts of which are overrun by militia violence.

Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) won control of the Taipei mayorship on Saturday in a setback for President Tsai Ing-wen, who had framed the local elections as being about showing defiance to China's rising bellicosity.

Zimbabwe is proposing changing the terms of a $3.5bn compensation deal signed with white former farmers two years ago, after twice missing agreed-to payments.

Eight people have died after a landslide caused by heavy rain engulfed buildings on the Italian holiday island of Ischia, infrastructure minister Matteo Salvini said on Saturday.

Elon Musk said on Friday night he would support Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, if he ran for US president in 2024.

About 2,500 people took off their clothes on Saturday to pose for US photographic artist Spencer Tunick at Sydney's Bondi Beach to raise awareness about skin cancer.

A South African laboratory study using Covid-19 samples from an immunosupressed individual over six months showed the virus evolved to become more pathogenic, indicating a new variant could cause more illness than the current predominant Omicron stra...

South Africa's ’s laws have hampered efforts to rid the country of illegal mining.

Rare protests broke out in China’s far western Xinjiang region, with crowds shouting at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger over their prolonged Covid-19 lockdown as nationwide infections set another record.

Ukrainian authorities are gradually restoring power, helped by the reconnection of the country's four nuclear plants, but millions of people are still without heat or electricity after the most devastating Russian air strikes of the war.

Three Western Cape company directors appeared in court this week to answer to fraud charges related to the procurement of personal protective equipment.

The Hawks are investigating the "kidnapping" of a 17-year-old Cape Town girl who was allegedly snatched from her family’s business this week.

Six Limpopo police officers have been arrested on charges of corruption after they allegedly assisted counterfeit cigarette syndicates to smuggle their products into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post.

One person was killed when a taxi driver, allegedly being pursued in connection with a crime, collided head-on with a truck on Umbilo Road in Durban on Saturday.

Free State police are searching for a group of men who waylaid a grade 11 pupil on his way from a local shop and stabbed him to death.

Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested and charged the country's vice president Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday, after months of investigation over his conduct.

Democratic Republic of the Congo's M23 rebel group on Friday said it wants to talk directly with the government after Congo's president and other African leaders signed a ceasefire deal aimed at stopping attacks by the militia.

The NSRI and the City of Cape Town are appealing to bathers, paddlers, surfers and sail boarders to be cautious in the Strand vicinity where a large whale carcass was located close to the shore on Friday.

Former US president Donald Trump dined this week at his Mar-a-Lago resort with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West who’s been criticised for recent anti-Semitic remarks, and a white supremacist who accompanied him.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube says it is impossible for law enforcement to combat the scourge of gender-based violence if the community does not play its part.

A man who allegedly impersonated a Gambling  Board official and robbed a businessman in Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, in September appeared in the Belfast magistrate’s court on Friday.

Siphesihle Khelembe, a 28-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering his friend Philani Mankangeni in Pietermariztzburg last month, was on Friday sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.

The Ntuzuma regional court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment for the rape of his stepdaughter in April last year.

FNB says between midnight and 10am on Friday, spend by its card holders was up 30% in values and 25% in volumes, compared to the same period last year.